Novel Approach for Industrial Noise Cancellation in Speech Using ICA-EMD with PSO

Speech Signals have high range of variation in amplitudes and frequency. These acoustic signals with diverse properties are hard to recognize and filter if mixed with noise. To separate noise from original signal, the artifact peaks are separated from original signal and discarded. In this paper, the ICA method of signal denoising is used to differentiate the speech signal from periodic noise and Empirical Mode Decomposition method is proposed to generate the components of signal. The IMF(s) of signal is the non-linear descending order of frequency components that have been filtered for better SNR. Filtering with wiener filter has amended output but also results in loss of information. The selection of IMF(s) for signal regeneration when optimized using objective function of PSO, the information of original signal was dramatically preserved with suppressed noise. The system is tested on 4 example signals and proposed technique illustrates lower mean square error and higher SNR compared to wiener and ICA.

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